The way the election shook out in Quebec isn't surprising. The Bloc lost two of its seats to Conservatives and one to a controversial radio personality. When Harper started campaigning vigorously in Quebec, ridings that had been traditionally Conservative started registering high numbers for the Conservative Party. The Bloc suffered because many voters who would normally vote Conservative had no one to vote for in a while and the Liberals were just too distasteful. What is more interesting is how low the Bloc's overall voting percentage was--43%. The Bloc doesn't always seem to grasp that votes for them are not automatically also votes in favour of separation.
There was no doubt, despite Gomery, that the Liberals would retain some seats in Quebec. They are all on the Island of Montreal and in ridings that have the largest percentages of anglophones and allophones. That Pierre Pettigrew lost to a Haitian-immigrant running for the Bloc in a riding with a majority-non-Francophone population is interesting.
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Date: 2006-01-24 05:59 pm (UTC)There was no doubt, despite Gomery, that the Liberals would retain some seats in Quebec. They are all on the Island of Montreal and in ridings that have the largest percentages of anglophones and allophones. That Pierre Pettigrew lost to a Haitian-immigrant running for the Bloc in a riding with a majority-non-Francophone population is interesting.